Valentin Klotzbücher
Welcome to my personal website!
I am an economist and applied statistician, living in Basel and working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg. I am always open to connecting—feel free to email me, schedule a meeting, or explore my CV. I’m also interested in new opportunities and happy to discuss potential roles.

I believe that unbiased, quantitative analysis is essential for informed decision-making and the key to meaningful progress. My research focuses on high-frequency, non-traditional data sources to uncover public health trends and support evidence-based crisis response.1–3 I have also worked on the political economy of terrorism and organized violence,4,5 contributed to meta-science studies,6,7 and I support The Unjournal in commissioning independent evaluations of high-impact research.8
Currently, I am teaching a course in Microeconomics and a seminar on reproducible research with R and Quarto. Moreover, our “Meet a Boss” lecture series is now open to registered external guests - send me an email if you want to attend!